50 Foot Robot Studios

Greetings all, its time for the FallCon ‘09 wrap up. For those of you who didn’t know Michael and I had our first creator table at this year’s FallCon in St Paul. For two whole days we sold stuff, did some networking, crammed our faces with junk food, and tried to keep warm. It was very [...]

Greetings, true believers! Con-time is almost upon us! Michael and myself will be sitting behind our very first table at the MCBA Fallcon this weekend, Oct 10th & 11th 10am-5pm both days...

It’s almost here! Only a few days away until FallCon here in Minnesota! It will be this weekend, October 10th & 11th, at the Grandstands in the State Fairgrounds in St. Paul Jason and myself will be there at the 50 Foot Robot table, come on by and see our wares! ...

I really enjoyed sharing some of my favorite covers in a post from a while back, so here is a fresh batch of covers I really dig! I love, love, LOVE pulp style art! Here is another cover from my youth by Bill Sienkiewicz...

Where have I been?! Where have YOU been??!! We’ve been busy around 50 Foot Robot Studios doing…. um.. various things and important… stuff. And…uh… talking to our girlfriends… they’re from Canada. You wouldn’t know them. Well, we’ve got some big announcements coming up. Don’t forget to ...

Project news: Mike has been at work with fellow Small Press Idol contestant, Erik Hendrix. Here is more info from Mike hizzelf. “The run for the crown may be over for THE ASSOCIATE (for now), but in an eleventh hour plot twist, Michael Nelsen of Team Associate has joined forces with Team FACTION!! ...

So, all of a sudden its almost July. Wow. Well, we have a few news items from the decidedly un-arctic base. First, we were going to go to the San Diego Comic Con (or SDCC in nerd speak) but those plans fell through. We now have our sights set on the Chicago Con this summer and [...]

We ended up in the top 9 in the competition, which is good enough to get us published in an Anthology along with other material AND we’ll be featured on the Cover. Rock on. Thanks a billion times for voting!!! The Associate will continue. ...

So, I was trolling the internets when I happened upon this site. It has a few cool galleries of golden age comic covers. If you go there just click on one of the three circles at the top of the page to see the galleries. Inspired by viewing the galleries I’ve decided to share some of [...]

Today is the LAST DAY to Help us retain our Cover Slot!

Today the third and final, for us anyway, round of the Small Press Idol contest draws to a close. I thought it would be fitting to wrap up my commentary on the three pages we submitted to the contest today as well...

On this page Cain and Dey proceed with some chemically assisted psychic forensics. Cain’s use of government cooked hallucinogens has caused confusion amongst some readers, but more on that later. So, why the drug trip? Well, I decided to use this device for a few of reasons. ...

I like to think the She Creatures were thinking of 50 Foot ROBOT when they wrote this awesome ditty: SEXY ROBOT VIDEO. So, Small Press Idol… Yeah. There are some folks getting 40 and 50 votes a day. We’re not going to last long wince we only pull in 18-20 votes. Oh well, we had a [...]